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Malte Helmert
Curriculum Vitae (November 2015)
Personal Details
Prof. Dr. Malte Helmert
Work address
University of Basel
Artificial Intelligence Group
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Spiegelgasse 1
4051 Basel, Switzerland
Phone +41 (61) 267 05 48
Fax +41 (61) 267 05 59
Email malte.helmert@unibas.ch
Homepage http://ai.cs.unibas.ch/people/helmert/
Current Position
since 06/2011
assistant professor (tenure track) for computer science
at the University of Basel, Switzerland;
head of the Artificial Intelligence research group
Previous Appointments
10/2011
declined appointment as associate professor (tenured) for computer science
at Saarland University, Germany
11/2008–10/2011
adjunct senior research fellow
at Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems,
Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
12/2006–05/2011
post-doctoral researcher (Akademischer Rat auf Zeit)
at University of Freiburg, Germany
04/2004–11/2006
research assistant and teaching assistant
Education
06/2006
04/2001–06/2006
Ph.D. degree (Dr. rer. nat.) from University of Freiburg, Germany
Thesis: Solving Planning Tasks in Theory and Practice
grade summa cum laude (with distinction)
Ph.D. student at University of Freiburg, Germany
03/2001 Diplom (∼M.Sc.) in computer science (Informatik)
from University of Freiburg, Germany
grade 1.0 (with distinction)
10/1997–03/2001
studies of computer science
and University of Durham, United Kingdom
Scholarships
cancelled Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship for project
(2011–2014) Abstraction Heuristics for Planning and Combinatorial Search (AHPACS)
funded by the European Commission (granted 12/2009)
cancelled because of appointment to University of Basel
04/2003–03/2004
scholar of graduate programme Mathematical Logic and Applications
funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG-Graduiertenkolleg)
04/2001–03/2003
scholar of graduate programme Human and Machine Intelligence
funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG-Graduiertenkolleg)
09/1999–03/2001
scholar of German National Merit Foundation
(Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
Awards
Awards for General Academic Achievement
07/2011 IJCAI-11 Computers and Thought Award
“for fundamental contributions to the theory and practice in automated
planning and combinatorial search”
presented at IJCAI 2011 in Barcelona, Spain
{ The Computers and Thought Award has been described as “generally
regarded as the most prestigious award in artificial intelligence” (quoted
from http://tinyurl.com/computers-and-thought-award).
Awards for Academic Publications
01/2015 Outstanding Paper Award for the paper
“From Non-Negative to General Operator Cost Partitioning”
at AAAI 2015 in Austin, Texas, USA
(with Florian Pommerening, Gabriele Röger and Jendrik Seipp)
{ Out of 1991 conference submissions, this was the sole recipient
of the award.
07/2014 Outstanding Paper Award Honorable Mention for the paper
“Generalized Label Reduction for Merge-and-Shrink Heuristics”
at AAAI 2014 in Québec City, Québec, Canada
(with Silvan Sievers and Martin Wehrle)
{ Out of 1406 conference submissions, 1 paper received the award
and 4 received honorable mentions.
06/2014 Best Paper Award for the paper
“LP-based Heuristics for Cost-optimal Planning”
at ICAPS 2014 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
(with Florian Pommerening, Gabriele Röger and Blai Bonet)
of the award.
“The Relative Pruning Power of Strong Stubborn Sets and Expansion Core”
at ICAPS 2013 in Rome, Italy
(with Martin Wehrle, Yusra Alkhazraji and Robert Mattmüller)
of the award.
06/2013 Best Student Paper Award for the paper
“Trial-based Heuristic Tree Search for Finite Horizon MDPs”
at ICAPS 2013 in Rome, Italy
(with Thomas Keller)
{ Sole recipient of the award (number of eligible submissions unknown).
“Better Parameter-Free Anytime Search by Minimizing Time Between
Solutions” at SoCS 2012 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
(with Jordan T. Thayer and J. Benton)
{ Sole recipient of the award (number of eligible submissions unknown).
“Strengthening Landmark Heuristics via Hitting Sets”
at ECAI 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal
(with Blai Bonet)
of the award.
07/2010 Best Poster Presentation Award for the presentation of the paper
“High-Quality Policies for the Canadian Traveler’s Problem”
at SoCS 2010 in Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA
(with Patrick Eyerich and Thomas Keller)
{ Out of 14 posters, this was the sole recipient of the award.
“Landmarks, Critical Paths and Abstractions: What’s the Difference
Anyway?” at ICAPS 2009 in Thessaloniki, Greece
(with Carmel Domshlak)
{ Out of 159 conference submissions, 2 papers received the award.
07/2009 IJCAII-JAIR Best Paper Prize Honorable Mention for the paper
“The Fast Downward Planning System”
awarded at IJCAI 2009 in Pasadena, California, USA
{ Out of 274 eligible JAIR papers published in 2004–2009,
1 paper received the award and 1 received an honorable mention.
07/2008 Outstanding Paper Award for the paper
“How Good is Almost Perfect?”
at AAAI 2008 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
(with Gabriele Röger)
{ Out of 937 conference submissions, 2 papers received the award.
09/2007 ICAPS Outstanding Dissertation Award Honorable Mention
for PhD dissertation “Solving Planning Tasks in Theory and Practice”
at ICAPS 2007 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA
{ There were 1 winner and 3 honorable mentions for the award.
09/2007 Best Research Paper Award for the paper
“Flexible Abstraction Heuristics for Optimal Sequential Planning”
at ICAPS 2007 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA
(with Patrik Haslum and Jörg Hoffmann)
of the award.
“A Planning Heuristic Based on Causal Graph Analysis”
at ICAPS 2004 in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
{ There were 2 recipients of the award
(number of eligible submissions unknown).
09/2001 PLANET Award for Research Excellence for the paper
“On the Complexity of Planning in Transportation Domains”
at ECP 2001 in Toledo, Spain
{ Out of 92 conference submissions, 2 received awards.
04/2001 VDI-Förderpreis (award of the Association of German Engineers)
for Diplomarbeit (Master’s thesis equivalent) “On the Complexity
of Planning in Transportation and Manipulation Domains”
{ This award honors the best theses submitted at the Faculty of Engineering
of the University of Freiburg in a given calendar year.
In the year 2001, 1 Ph.D. thesis and 1 diplomarbeit were awarded.
Awards for Academic Service
07/2014 Outstanding Senior Program Committee Member Award
at AAAI 2014 in Québec City, Québec, Canada
{ Out of 55 senior program committee members, 3 received an award.
07/2013 Outstanding Program Committee Member Award
at AAAI 2013 in Bellevue, Washington, USA
{ Out of 600 program committee members, 6 received an award.
07/2007 Outstanding Program Committee Member Award Honorable Mention
at AAAI 2007 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
{ Out of 606 program committee members, 1 received an award
and 1 received an honorable mention.
Awards for Planning Systems
06/2011 Winner, Deterministic Sequential Optimization Track
for the planning system “Fast Downward Stone Soup-1”
at the 7th International Planning Competition (IPC 2011)
at ICAPS 2011 in Freiburg, Germany
(with Jörg Hoffmann, Erez Karpas, Emil Keyder, Raz Nissim, Silvia Richter,
Gabriele Röger, Jendrik Seipp and Matthias Westphal)
{ Out of 14 planning systems participating in this competition track,
1 was declared winner and 2 were declared runners-up.
06/2011 Runner-up ex-aequo, Deterministic Sequential Optimization Track
for the planning system “Merge and Shrink”
(with Raz Nissim and Jörg Hoffmann)
06/2011 Runner-up ex-aequo, Deterministic Sequential Optimization Track
for the planning system “Selective Max”
(with Erez Karpas, Carmel Domshlak and Shaul Markovitch)
06/2011 Winner, Deterministic Sequential Satisficing Track
for the planning system “LAMA 2011”
(with Silvia Richter, Matthias Westphal and Gabriele Röger)
1 was declared winner and 1 was declared runner-up.
06/2011 Runner-up, Deterministic Sequential Satisficing Track
for the planning system “Fast Downward Stone Soup-1”
(with Erez Karpas, Silvia Richter, Gabriele Röger and Jendrik Seipp)
06/2011 Runner-up, Learning Part
for the planning system “Fast Downward Autotune-speed”
(with Chris Fawcett, Holger Hoos, Erez Karpas, Gabriele Röger
and Jendrik Seipp)
{ Out of 8 planning systems participating in this competition,
06/2004 1st Prize, Satisficing Propositional Track
for the planning system “Fast (Diagonally) Downward”
at ICAPS 2004 in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
(with Silvia Richter)
this is the sole recipient of the award.
04/2000 Distinguished Planner Award
for the planning system “MIPS”
at the 2nd International Planning Competition (IPC 2000)
at AIPS 2000 in Breckenridge, Colorado, USA
(with Stefan Edelkamp)
{ Out of 15 participating planning systems across both competition tracks,
2 were declared winners (“exceptional performance”)
and 4 were declared runners-up (“distinguished planner”).
Awards for Teaching
09/2014 Nomination for Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching
at University of Basel
for the course “Grundlagen der Künstlichen Intelligenz”
(Foundations of Artificial Intelligence)
{ Among all courses taught at the University of Basel,
38 were nominated for the award and 1 received it.
12/2006 Lehrpreis des Landes Baden-Württemberg (state teaching award)
for the “Sommercampus” event (as a co-organizer; 40 000 EUR)
{ Among all teaching activities at all universities in the German state
of Baden-Württemberg, 3 were awarded in the year 2006.
Acquired Funding
All grants as sole primary investigator.
Ongoing Projects
02/2014–01/2019
ERC Starting Grant State Space Exploration:
Principles, Algorithms, Applications (SSX).
1 499 737 EUR, 1 post-doc, 3 Ph.D. students.
European Research Council.
05/2015–04/2018 Reasoning about Plans and Heuristics for Planning
and Combinatorial Search (RAPAHPACS).
675 631 CHF, 1 post-doc, 2 Ph.D. students.
Swiss National Science Foundation.
01/2015–07/2016 Automated Reformulation and Pruning in Factored State Spaces (ARAP).
165 367 CHF, 1 post-doc.
Completed Projects
12/2012–02/2013 1D Tower Building/2D Twin Tower Building.
46 500 CHF.
Industry Project, Dematic GmbH.
11/2012–10/2014 Safe Pruning in Optimal State-Space Search (SPOSSS).
206 583 CHF, 0.5 post-docs, 1 Ph.D. student.
05/2012–04/2015 Abstraction Heuristics for Planning and Combinatorial Search (AHPACS).
250 000 CHF, 2 Ph.D. students.
12/2010–06/2014 Kontrollwissen für domänenunabhängige Planungssysteme
(“control knowledge for domain-independent planning systems”).
234 000 CHF, 1 post-doc researcher.
German Research Foundation.
Project transferred from University of Freiburg to University of Basel.
(2011–2014)
Marie-Curie International Outgoing Fellowship
to The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
240 000 EUR.
European Commission.
Cancelled due to appointment at University of Basel.
Publications
See separate list of publications.
Academic Presentations
Invited Plenary Talks at Major Conferences (500+ Participants)
08/2014
Keynote lecture at 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(ECAI 2014), held in Prague, Czech Republic.
Topic: Are We There Yet?
07/2011
Invited plenary lecture at Twenty-Second International Joint Conference
on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011) held in Barcelona, Spain.
Topic: At Most Four Approaches to Heuristic Search
(Computers and Thought Award Lecture).
Other Invited Talks and Panel Presentations at Conferences/Symposia
11/2015
Invited talk at SGAICO Annual Assembly and Workshop (SGAICO 2015)
held in Geneva, Switzerland
Topic: Declarative Heuristics for State-Space Search.
07/2013
Invited non-plenary presentation at Twenty-Seventh AAAI Conference
on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2013) held in Bellevue, Washington, USA.
Topic: What’s Hot at ICAPS?.
08/2012
Invited talk at the Sixth Starting Artificial Intelligence Researchers’
Symposium (STAIRS 2012), held in Montpellier, France.
Topic: How to be a Strong and Happy AI Researcher.
07/2011
Invited talk at the IJCAI-2011 Workshop on Benchmarks
and Applications of Spatial Reasoning, held in Barcelona, Spain.
Topic: Lessons Learned from Benchmarking
in the Automated Planning Community.
08/2010
Invited talk at the ECAI-2010 Workshop on Benchmarking
Intelligent (Multi-) Robot Systems, held in Lisbon, Portugal.
Topic: Lessons Learned from Benchmarking
in the Automated Planning Community.
07/2010
Invited panelist at Third Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search
(SoCS 2010), held in Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA.
Topic: Domain-Independent versus Domain-Specific Search.
05/2010
Invited panelist at Twentieth International Conference on Automated
Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2010), held in Toronto, Canada.
Topic: The Present and Future(s) of Planning.
07/2008
Invited talk at First International Symposium on Search Techniques
in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (STAIR 2008),
held in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Topic: Automatically Deriving Abstraction Heuristics.
05/2007
Invited talk at First SFB/TR 8 Benchmark Workshop
(workshop of the interdisciplinary Transregional Collaborative
Research Center Spatial Cognition), held in Etelsen, Germany.
Topic: Benchmarking in Planning.
Invited Talks at Dagstuhl Seminars
11/2014
Speaker at Dagstuhl seminar “Automated Planning and Model Checking”
held at Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany.
Topic: Heuristics for Classical Planning: We’re More Rigorous
Than You Thought!
10/2009
Speaker at Dagstuhl seminar “Graph Search Engineering”
Topic: Landmarks, Critical Paths and Abstractions:
What’s the Difference Anyway?.
04/2006
Speaker at Dagstuhl seminar “Directed Model Checking”
Topic: A Planning Heuristic Based on Causal Graph Analysis.
11/2001
Speaker at Dagstuhl seminar “Exploration of Large State Spaces”
Topic: Decidability and Undecidability Results for Planning
with Numerical State Variables.
Invited Talks at Universities
11/2013
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel.
Topic: Tutorial on Planning and Search.
11/2013
Topic: Getting the Most Out of Pattern Databases for Classical Planning.
09/2013
King’s College, London, United Kingdom.
Topic: Getting the Most Out of Pattern Databases for Classical Planning.
09/2013
King’s College, London, United Kingdom.
Topic: What’s Hot in Classical Planning?.
02/2012
Topic: Heuristics for Domain-Independent Planning
(six-hour graduate course).
01/2012
Topic: At Most Four Approaches to Heuristic Search.
05/2010
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
Topic: Landmarks, Critical Paths and Abstractions:
What’s the Difference Anyway?
06/2009
Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Topic: Planning as heuristic search (series of six invited lectures).
10/2008
Griffith University/NICTA Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Topic: How Good is Almost Perfect?
10/2008
Australian National University/NICTA Canberra, Canberra, Australia.
03/2008
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
02/2008
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
02/2008
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Topic: Domain-Independent Construction of Pattern Database Heuristics
for Cost-Optimal Planning.
10/2005
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom, October 2005.
Topic: Universal Game Playing – Initial Ideas
and Some Experiments in Connect-Four.
04/2001
University of Durham, United Kingdom, April 2001.
Topic: On the Complexity of Planning in Transportation
and Manipulation Domains.
Tutorials at Major Conferences and Summer Schools
06/2015
Tutorial at Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Automated Planning
and Scheduling (ICAPS 2015) held in Jerusalem, Israel.
Topic: LP-based Heuristics for Cost-optimal Classical Planning
(with Florian Pommerening and Gabriele Röger).
06/2015
Tutorial at Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Automated Planning
and Scheduling (ICAPS 2015) held in Jerusalem, Israel.
Topic: Latest Trends in Abstraction Heuristics for Classical Planning
(with Jendrik Seipp and Silvan Sievers).
01/2015
Tutorial at Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(AAAI 2015) held in Austin, Texas, USA.
Topic: A Beginner’s Introduction to Heuristic Search Planning
(with Gabriele Röger).
06/2013
Tutorial at Twenty-Third International Conference on Automated Planning
and Scheduling (ICAPS 2013) held in Rome, Italy.
Topic: Engineering a Heuristic Search Planner (with Gabriele Röger).
09/2009
Tutorial/lecture at ICAPS 2009 Summer School
on Automated Planning and Scheduling,
held in conjunction with ICAPS 2009, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Topic: Computational Complexity of Planning.
09/2009
Tutorial/lecture at ICAPS 2009 Summer School
on Automated Planning and Scheduling,
held in conjunction with ICAPS 2009, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Topic: Planning as Heuristic Search: From Basics to Advanced Methods
(with Carmel Domshlak).
09/2008
Tutorial at Eighteenth International Conference on Automated Planning
and Scheduling (ICAPS 2008) held in Sydney, Australia.
Topic: Abstraction Heuristics for Planning (with Patrik Haslum).
06/2006
Tutorial at Sixteenth International Conference on Automated Planning
and Scheduling (ICAPS 2006) held in the Lake District, United Kingdom.
Topic: Planning and Complexity.
Outreach Talks
11/2013
Lecture at Seniorenuniversität beider Basel held in Basel, Switzerland.
Topic: Universelles Problemlösen durch Künstliche Intelligenz
(Universal Problem Solving through Artificial Intelligence).
Academic Service
University of Basel
since 10/2015
since 08/2015
since 08/2015
01/2013–06/2015
Member of search committee Adaptive Systems (Computer Science)
Head of Computer Science curriculum commission
Member of Computer Science curriculum commission
Member of university website relaunch committee
12/2012–10/2014
Member of search committee High Performance Computing
(Computer Science)
03/2013–04/2014
Member of search committee Pure Mathematics (Mathematics)
Societies and Scientific Organizations
ICAPS
International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
{ Member of the ICAPS executive council (2011–2017)
{ ICAPS executive council conference liaison (2012–2016)
SoCS
Symposium on Combinatorial Search
{ Member of the SoCS council (2013–2017)
AAAI
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
{ Member
SI
Swiss Computer Science Society
{ Member
SGAICO
SI Special Interest Group on AI and Cognitive Science
{ Member
Journals and Monograph Publishers
AI Access
AIJ
JAIR
AI Access foundation
{ Associate editor (2013–2017)
Artificial Intelligence Journal
{ Reviewer (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014)
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
{ Associate editor (2010–2016)
{ Editorial board member (2007–2010)
{ Reviewer (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
{ Member of distinguished paper award selection committee (2013)
Others { AIEDAM (Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design,
Analysis and Manufacturing): Reviewer 2006
{ AMAI (Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence):
Reviewer 2007, 2008, 2010
{ CI (Computational Intelligence):
Reviewer 2008
{ IJAIT (International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools):
Reviewer 2005
{ JAAMAS (Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems):
Reviewer 2006
{ JCSS (Journal of Computer and System Sciences):
Reviewer 2009
{ JoH (Journal of Heuristics):
Reviewer 2014
{ JOS (Journal of Scheduling):
Reviewer 2007, 2008
{ KI (Künstliche Intelligenz, engl. Artificial Intelligence):
Reviewer 2009, 2010, 2011
{ TCS (Theoretical Computer Science):
Reviewer 2003, 2010, 2013
Funding Agencies
Agencies
Reviewing for international funding agencies:
{ Canada (NSERC): 2014
{ Greece (Hellenic Republic Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning
and Religious Affairs): 2011
{ Israel (ISF): 2008, 2013
{ United Kingdom (EPSRC): 2015
Conferences
AAAI
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
{ Tutorial chair (2016, 2017)
{ SPC member (2011, 2012, 2014, 2015)
{ PC member (2007, 2008, 2010, 2013)
{ Reviewer (2002, 2005)
{ Senior member track PC member (2015)
{ Late-breaking paper track PC member (2013)
ECAI
ICAPS
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
{ Area chair (2012)
{ PC member (2006, 2008, 2010, 2014)
{ Reviewer (2002)
International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
{ Conference chair (2011)
{ SPC member (2013, 2014)
{ PC member (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016)
{ Reviewer (2002, 2003, 2004)
{ Tutorial chair (2009, 2016)
{ ICAPS award committee member (2008, 2010)
{ Journal presentation track PC member (2013)
{ Doctoral consortium mentor (2007, 2008×2, 2010×2, 2011×2, 2013, 2015)
{ Doctoral consortium PC member (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
IJCAI
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
{ Advisory board member (2013)
{ Executive committee member (2013)
{ Area chair (2015, 2016)
{ SPC member (2011, 2013)
{ PC member (2009)
{ Reviewer (2005, 2007)
{ Video competition PC member (2013, 2015)
{ Best papers from sister conferences PC member (2015)
KI
Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence
{ Program chair (2016)
{ PC member (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
SoCS
International Symposium on Combinatorial Search
{ Conference chair (2013)
{ PC member (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015)
Others { CAEPIA (Conference of the Spanish Association for AI):
PC member 2009
{ DAGM (Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition):
Reviewer 2002, 2004
{ ICTAI (IEEE International Conference on Tools with AI):
Reviewer 2007
{ ISAIM (International Symposium on AI and Mathematics):
PC member 2008, 2010
{ KR (International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation
and Reasoning): PC member 2014; reviewer 2004, 2006
{ PRICAI (Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence):
Reviewer 2004
{ STAIRS (Starting AI Researchers’ Symposium):
Reviewer 2004
Summer Schools
ACAI
Advanced Course on AI
{ Organizer of ACAI 2011 Summer School on Automated Planning and
Scheduling (with Michael Brenner, Bernhard Nebel and Gabriele Röger)
Workshops
CAIR Workshop on Competitions in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
{ Organizer of CAIR 2009 (with Johan de Kleer, Lukas Kuhn
and Paul E. Rybski)
CP4PS Workshop on Problem Solving using Classical Planners
{ PC member of CP4PS 2012
GRAPHite Workshop on GRAPH Inspection and Traversal Engineering
{ PC member of GRAPHite 2012
HSDIP Workshop for Heuristics and Search for Domain-Independent Planning
{ Organizer of HSDIP 2013 (with Gabriele Röger, Jordan T. Thayer
and Michael Katz)
{ Organizer of HSDIP 2012 (with Patrik Haslum, Erez Karpas,
Carlos Linares López, Gabriele Röger, Jordan Thayer and Rong Zhou)
{ Organizer of HSDIP 2009 (with Carmel Domshlak and Jörg Hoffmann)
{ Organizer of HSDIP 2007 (with Blai Bonet, Carmel Domshlak,
Héctor Geffner, Patrik Haslum, Jörg Hoffmann and Vincent Vidal)
MCTS Workshop on Monte-Carlo Tree Search: Theory and Applications
{ PC member of MCTS 2011
PlanSOpt Workshop on Planning, Search, and Optimization
{ PC member of PlanSOpt 2015
PuK Workshop Planen, Scheduling und Konfigurieren, Entwerfen
(Planning, Scheduling and Configuration, Design)
{ Local arrangements chair of PuK 2002
WIPC Workshop on the International Planning Competition
{ Organizer of WIPC 2007
(with Minh Binh Do, Alan Fern and Ioannis Refanidis)
{ PC member of WIPC 2012
Other
IPC
International Planning Competition
{ Organizer of IPC 2008, Deterministic Part
(with Minh Binh Do and Ioannis Refanidis)
{ IPC committee member (since 2009)
{ advisory committee member for IPC 2011
Teaching
Evaluation results for all courses are available on request.
Teaching at University of Basel
Fall 2015
Seminar and Project “Search and Optimization”
(with Martin Wehrle)
Spring 2015
Lecture “Grundlagen der Künstlichen Intelligenz”
Spring 2015
Lecture “Theorie der Informatik”
(Theory of Computer Science; with Gabriele Röger)
Fall 2014
(with Gabriele Röger)
Fall 2014
Seminar and Project “Open-Source-Softwareentwicklung”
(Open Source Software Development; with Jendrik Seipp)
Spring 2014
{ nominated for Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching
Spring 2014
(Theory of Computer Science; with Gabriele Röger)
Fall 2013
Spring 2013
Spring 2013
(Theory of Computer Science; with Christian Tschudin)
Fall 2012
Spring 2012
Spring 2012
(Theory of Computer Science; with Christian Tschudin)
Spring 2010
Lecture “Grundlagen der Künstlichen Intelligenz” (Foundations of Artificial
Intelligence; with Wolfram Burgard, Bernhard Nebel and Volker Roth)
Spring 2009
Intelligence; with Wolfram Burgard, Bernhard Nebel and Volker Roth)
Summer 2007
Intelligence; with Wolfram Burgard and Bernhard Nebel)
Summer 2006
Intelligence; with Wolfram Burgard and Luc De Raedt)
Teaching at University of Freiburg
For brevity, this list only includes teaching activities in the lecturer (for lectures) or main organizer
(for laboratories and seminars) role. Activities in a teaching assistant or seminar contributor role
are omitted.
Winter 2010/2011
Summer 2010
Winter 2009/2010
Summer 2009
Winter 2008/2009
Summer 2008
Winter 2007/2008
Laboratory “Handlungsplanung”
(Artificial Intelligence Planning)
Lecture “Handlungsplanung”
(Principles of AI Planning; with Bernhard Nebel)
Lecture “Theoretical Computer Science II”
(with Andreas Karwath)
Practical “Grundlagen der Künstlichen Intelligenz”
(Principles of AI Planning)
Lecture “Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning”
(with Bernhard Nebel and Stefan Wölfl)
Lecture “Spieltheorie”
(Game Theory; with Bernhard Nebel)
Winter 2007/2008 “Handlungsplanung und Modelchecking”
(AI Planning and Model Checking)
Summer 2007
Lecture “Constraint-Satisfaction-Probleme”
(Constraint Satisfaction Problems; with Stefan Wölfl)
Winter 2006/2007
Summer 2003
(Principles of AI Planning; with Bernhard Nebel)
Seminar “Spiele, Spieltheorie und Multiagentensysteme”
(Games, Game Theory and Multi-Agent Systems)
Teaching at Other Institutions
Summer 2013
Lecture “Heuristic Search in Artificial Intelligence”
at Ibn Sina School for Computer Science 2013
Summer 2012
Lecture “Computational Complexity”
at Ibn Sina School for Computer Science 2012
Winter 2001/2002
Lecture “Informatik 1” (Introduction to Computer Science)
at Berufsakademie Lörrach (with Stefan Edelkamp)
Other Teaching Activities
I am the initiator of the postgraduate seminar Reading Group on Planning and Search, which has
been held weekly at the University of Freiburg since May 2009. I organized the reading group
during its first three years (until April 2012). Since 2011, the reading group has been held as a
joint event of the University of Freiburg and the University of Basel.
I was one of the main initiators (jointly with Thomas Nunninger) of the Sommercampus event,
a grass-roots initiative to foster teaching and learning at the Faculty of Engineering at the
University of Freiburg outside the regular curricula. Jointly with Thomas Nunninger and Janis
Fehr, I did the bulk of the organization work for the six Sommercampus events in 2004–2009.
The Baden-Württemberg ministry of education has recognized the Sommercampus with the
Landeslehrpreis 2006 (state teaching award), worth 40 000 EUR.
Supervision of Ph.D. Students
As Supervisor: Ongoing
since 03/2015
Michael Barry
(as external Ph.D. student, supervised jointly with René Schumann)
since
since
since
since
since
Salomé Simon
Manuel Heusner
Jendrik Seipp
Silvan Sievers
Florian Pommerening
05/2014
02/2014
03/2013
11/2012
05/2012
As Supervisor: Completed
03/2011
Silvia Richter, Landmark-Based Heuristics and Search Control
for Automated Planning.
Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
(Jointly supervised with Abdul Sattar and Charles Gretton.)
{ Winner of the CORE Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation award
for the best Computer Science thesis produced in Australia during 2011.
{ Winner of the ICAPS Best Dissertation Award 2012.
{ Awarded with the Griffith University Chancellor’s Medal 2011.
As External Reviewer
12/2015
Fan Xie, Exploration in Greedy Best-First Search for Satisficing Planning.
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
06/2015
Álvaro Torralba Arias de Reyna,
Symbolic Search and Abstraction Heuristics for Cost-Optimal Planning.
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.
09/2013
Bram Ridder, Lifted Heuristics: Towards More Scalable Planning Systems.
King’s College London, United Kingdom.
05/2013
Hootan Nakhost, Random Walk Planning:
Theory, Practice, and Application.
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
01/2013
Robert Mattmüller, Informed Progression Search
for Fully Observable Nondeterministic Planning.
University of Freiburg, Germany.
09/2012
Peter Kissmann, Symbolic Search in Planning and General Game Playing.
University of Bremen, Germany.
02/2012
Erez Karpas, Non-classical Heuristics for Classical Planning.
Technion, Haifa, Israel.
Supervision of M.Sc. Students
At University of Basel: Ongoing
since 11/2015
since 11/2015
since 08/2015
Dario Maggi
Michaja Pressmar
Cedric Geissmann
At University of Basel: Completed
01/2015
Patrick von Reth, Empirical Evaluation of Search Algorithms
for Satisficing Planning.
06/2014
Sascha Scherrer, Automatic Selection of Pattern Collections
for Domain Independent Planning.
05/2014
Lukas Beck, A Case Study on the Search Topology
of Greedy Best-First Search.
03/2014
Salomé Simon, A General LTL Framework
for Describing Control Knowledge in Classical Planning.
10/2013
Lorenzo Luisoni, Efficient Computation of Landmarks
with Relaxed Planning.
08/2013
07/2013
Manuel Heusner, Action Pruning Through Under-approximation Refinement.
Gabriel Duss, Computation of h+ with Factored Planning.
08/2012
Pat Mächler, Pebbles in Motion – Polynomial Algorithms
for Multi-Agent Path Planning Problems.
Elsewhere: Completed
12/2012
Jendrik Seipp, Counterexample-guided Abstraction Refinement
for Classical Planning. University of Freiburg.
11/2012
Manuela Ortlieb, Pattern-Database-Heuristiken für nichtdeterministische
Planungsprobleme unter partieller Beobachtbarkeit.
University of Freiburg. (As external reviewer, not supervisor.)
04/2012
Yusra Alkhazraji, Partial Order Reduction for Automated Planning.
University of Freiburg.
04/2012
Silvan Sievers, Implementation of the UCT Algorithm for Doppelkopf.
12/2011
Florian Pommerening, Optimal Planning for Delete-free Tasks
with Incremental LM-cut. University of Freiburg.
07/2011
Tansel Uras. Applications of AI planning in genome rearrangement
and in multi-robot systems.
Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey. (As external reviewer, not supervisor.)
05/2009
Jens Witkowski, Truthful Feedback for Reputation Mechanisms.
Diplomarbeit, University of Freiburg.
04/2009
Stefan Schleipen, Problemvereinfachung für numerische Planungsprobleme.
02/2009
Christoph Betz, Komplexität und Berechnung der h+ -Heuristik.
07/2007
Dennis Jung, Eine automatentheoretische Heuristik für klassische
Planungsprobleme. Diplomarbeit, University of Freiburg.
03/2007
Benjamin Lempp, Algorithmen für teilerfüllendes Planen.
01/2006
Michael Drescher, Approximationseigenschaften von Transportproblemen
in der Handlungsplanung. Diplomarbeit, University of Freiburg.
04/2005
Uwe Zeisberger, Pfadplanung unter Unsicherheit.
07/2003
Sebastian Kupferschmid, Entwicklung eines Double-Dummy Skat Solvers
mit einer Anwendung für verdeckte Skatspiele.
Supervision of B.Sc. Students
At University of Basel: Ongoing
since 09/2015
since 09/2015
Maximilian Linus Grüner
Raphael Imahorn
At University of Basel: Completed
07/2015
Andreas Thüring, Evaluation of Regression Search and State Subsumption
in Classical Planning.
02/2015
Patrik Dürrenberger, Solving the Traveling Tournament Problem
with Heuristic Search.
01/2015
08/2014
Daniel Federau, Tunnel-Based Pruning for Classical Planning.
Lukas Songajlo, Kontext-basierte Suche für klassische Handlungsplanung.
08/2014
Dietrich Zerr, Generating and Evaluating Unsolvable
STRIPS Planning Instances for Classical Planning.
12/2013
07/2013
Beat Hänger, Phase Transitions in the Solvability of Sokoban.
Stefano Branco, Iterative Tunneling A∗ in Planning.
06/2013
Manuela Lütolf, A Learning AI for the game Risk
using the TD(λ)-Algorithm.
06/2013
Claudio Alexander Marxer, An Algorithm for Avoiding Plateaus
in Heuristic Search.
10/2012
Lukas Beck, Optimal Policies for the Canadian Traveler’s Problem.
08/2012
Pier Paolo Bortoluzzi, A Pattern Database Approach
for Solving the TopSpin Puzzle Problem.
07/2012
Sascha Scherrer, An algorithm for computing bisimulations in planning.
07/2012
Salomé Simon, CSP- and SAT-based Inference Techniques
Applied to Gnomine.
07/2012
07/2012
Matthias Solèr, Refining abstraction heuristics with mutexes.
Arthur Toenz, Search methods for general permutation problems.
06/2012
Simon Wang, Construction of Pattern Database Heuristics
using Cost Partitioning.
11/2011
Manuel Heusner, UCT for Pac-Man.
Elsewhere: Completed
12/2011
Tilman Thiry, Implementierung der Merge-And-Shrink-Heuristik
für Nicht-deterministisches Planen.
University of Freiburg. (As external reviewer, not supervisor.)
09/2009
Jendrik Seipp, Fluent Merging für klassische Planungsprobleme.
10/2009
Silvan Sievers, Erweiterung eines Planungssystems
zum Lösen von Ein-Personen-Spielen.
University of Freiburg. (As reviewer, not supervisor.)
09/2009
Diana Hille, Analyse des SGPlan.
09/2009
Jonas Sternisko, Einfluss der Finite-Domain-Repräsentation
auf die Performance von Planungssystemen.
University of Freiburg. (As reviewer, not supervisor.)
05/2008
David Goergen, Kompakte Kodierungen monotoner boolescher Funktionen.

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